Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Our client is a growing technology-driven organization in the financial services space that is modernizing a traditionally legacy-heavy industry through cloud technology, automation, data, and AI.

They are looking for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to take a hands-on leadership role in building and maintaining reliable, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure. This person will lead a team of SREs while also remaining technically involved in infrastructure, automation, observability, incident response, and continuous improvement.

This is an opportunity to have a meaningful impact on the reliability and scalability of a modern AWS environment while helping establish strong engineering and operational practices.

What You'll Do

• Lead a team of SREs, including full-time employees and contractors
• Assign technical work, review pull requests, and provide technical guidance and feedback
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure in AWS
• Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, logging, and dashboarding solutions
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform and Terragrunt
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment reliability and developer productivity
• Support and enhance Kubernetes-based environments and containerized workloads
• Implement and manage Argo CD and Argo Workflows for application and workflow orchestration
• Respond to production incidents, lead root cause analysis, and implement long-term solutions
• Identify opportunities to improve system performance, reliability, security, and cost efficiency
• Partner with software engineering and other technical teams to improve infrastructure and developer workflows
• Establish and maintain disaster recovery strategies and processes
• Promote infrastructure, security, automation, and operational best practices across engineering

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, including services such as EKS, Fargate, and Aurora
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and related tooling/plugins
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and Terragrunt
• Experience with Argo CD and Argo Workflows
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, particularly with GitHub Actions
• Strong understanding of Docker and containerization
• Experience with cloud infrastructure security and compliance
• Experience with logging, monitoring, and observability platforms
• Strong scripting/programming experience
• Experience with database management
• Proficiency with Git/version control
• Experience with production incident management and troubleshooting
• Previous experience leading or mentoring technical engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Datadog
• Experience with Cloudflare
• Experience implementing advanced AWS security capabilities such as GuardDuty and Security Hub
• Experience developing and maintaining disaster recovery strategies
• Experience with workflow automation platforms such as Camunda
• Experience within mortgage, lending, banking, or financial services
• AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Developer/DevOps Engineer or Associate-level certifications
• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field

What You'll Get

• Competitive base salary and performance-based compensation
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits
• 401(k) with company matching
• Opportunities for career growth as the organization scales
• Collaborative, technology-focused engineering environment
• Generous PTO and additional employee perks

This is a hands-on technical leadership opportunity for an SRE who enjoys building reliable cloud infrastructure, improving engineering practices, and leading a team while remaining close to the technology.